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Historical Squabbles & Byways. Schuller avoids the excesses that have blighted so much previous writing on jazz - the legendmongering, the amateur guesswork, the "in-group jargon and glossy enthusiasm." He does plunge into some historical squabbles, notably in his attacks on the stock notion that only jazz rhythms came from Africa while its melodies and harmonies were derived from Europe; actually, he says, all of its musical elements came largely from Africa. Here and there he explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole...
Last week politics once again took precedence over sport. Meeting in Lausanne, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee unanimously voted to withdraw South Africa's invitation to compete in next October's Mexico City Olympics-provided a majority of the I.O.C.'s 71 members agreed. They...
...suspension-by finally agreeing to field a fully integrated team. Athletes would be chosen without regard to color, would live and train together in Mexico City. Nevertheless, such was the outcry over the reinstatement that Mexican officials feared their games would turn into an $84 million fiasco if South Africa were permitted to compete...
Incensed at South Africa's hypocrisy -integration abroad, apartheid at home -at least 40 nations announced that they would boycott the Olympics unless the invitation was rescinded. In some cases it was an empty threat: such small countries as Malawi and Upper Volta are not recognized by the I.O.C. and could not compete in Mexico anyway. The clincher came when the Soviet Union threatened to pull out and a number of top U.S. Negro athletes opted to boycott too. That kind of pressure, plus the worldwide reaction to Martin Luther King's assassination, left the I.O.C. with only...
While the decision was popular, it set a dangerous precedent. What, for example, is to prevent Egypt and its friends from attempting the same tactic to force the expulsion of Israel? And the people most sorely hurt by the I.O.C. action are South Africa's athletes. For Sprinter Paul Nash, who last month tied the 100-meter world record four times in eight days, or for Swimmer Karen Muir, the world's No. 1 backstroker, it means losing a crack at Olympic gold medals. Both Nash and Muir are white. For the blacks on South Africa...